Smiling selfie of Bryan Kohberger
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() Court documents in the upcoming trial of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, have yielded new information, including records of his online purchase of a combat knife.

The potential evidence is featured in a trove of material issued Wednesday in the notorious quadruple murder case. Kohberger is accused of stabbing Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves as they slept in a Moscow, Idaho apartment house.

Among the information is the revelation that prosecutors say they have online records showing Kohberger purchased a military-style knife, a sheath and a knife sharpener online, about eight months before the killings.

Smiling selfie of Bryan Kohberger
Newly released court documents include this smiling selfie of Bryan Kohberger, taken on the morning four University of Idaho students were murdered.

Also noteworthy in the court documents is a selfie that Kohberger is said to have taken the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, hours after the murders. In the picture, Kohberger is seen smiling and giving a thumbs-up gesture, possibly in front of a tiled shower.

Prosecutors have indicated they would like to use the contemporaneous photo of Kohberger to show jurors he has the type of “bushy eyebrows” described by a surviving roommate who saw a stranger in the house at the time of the killings but did not know what was happening.

In addition, the court documents include a map that shows the whereabouts of Kohberger’s vehicle at the time of the murders.

Steve Goncalves, the father of victim Kaylee Goncalves, reacted positively to the release of the information after more than two years, saying, “Man, it feels good.”

He said the selfie of Kohberger is telling: “That’s an ‘F you’ to Idaho. ‘I just went into your state. I just killed your kids in their beds, and you’re not going to catch me. I’m just going to shower up here, clean off the last bit of the evidence.’”   

Kohberger, who has pleaded not guilty, is set to go on trial in August. Prosecutors say a knife sheath found at the murder scene links him through DNA evidence.

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